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1 December 2010 Estimación del Comportamiento Poblacional de Epilachna varivestis Mulsant Utilizando un Modelo de Simulación
Antonio Ismael Acevedo Peralta, Víctor Manuel Pinto, Ramón Garza García, Samuel Ramírez Alarcón, Jorge Vera Graziano
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Abstract

A model, structured by biological stages and with a cumulative development function was used to simulate biological stages of the population dynamics of the Mexican bean beetle, Epilachna varivestis Mulsant, under field conditions in the area of Texcoco, Mexico. The simulations were made to estimate the population dynamics of the Mexican bean beetle, depending on the time and their physiological age using the average of daily temperature values that occurred in the study area from July to October in the years 2007 and 2008, and the percentages of mortality observed in the field for each biological stage simulated for the insect. The simulations were compared with the population dynamics of the pest and its development times registered in the field, matched good estimations with a variation not greater, except for adults in 2008, than 7%.

Antonio Ismael Acevedo Peralta, Víctor Manuel Pinto, Ramón Garza García, Samuel Ramírez Alarcón, and Jorge Vera Graziano "Estimación del Comportamiento Poblacional de Epilachna varivestis Mulsant Utilizando un Modelo de Simulación," Southwestern Entomologist 35(4), 557-567, (1 December 2010). https://doi.org/10.3958/059.035.0408
Published: 1 December 2010
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